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Why do I like movies that make you cry?

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Oh, sorry you had such a bad day at work that day, believe me, I have been there.  I have to say I really don't like watching a lot of tear jerkers (maybe the really old ones like Wuthering Heights, An Affair to Remember or Dark Victory).  There was one movie that made me cry for 20 minutes after the stupid movie was over and that was Iris.  Whew, I have NEVER done that before.  Then there was Schindler's List and the Pianist, oh my god, talk about tear my heart out.  They were excellent movies and I think everyone should be MADE to watch them in school because it showed the brutality and evilness and non caring of how a lot of people were and still are, but I don't want to see them again.  whew, way too painful and sad.  Anyway, you are right, after you have a good cry at a movie you do feel a lot better.  Maybe in some movies we cry because we think how we would be in that situation, but it's a SAFE cry because we know we aren't in that predicament...

Re: Why do I like movies that make you cry?

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I tend to think the crying is an added bonus (of sorts).  What's good about movies that make you cry is that they're such an engaging experience.  Well done or thought-provoking enough to draw you in and make you interested, invested in what happens.  Evoking empathy and appreciation of the depths and heights of the situation presented.

There are different levels of film crying, though.  Sometimes it's just a little teary-ness, a recognition of how you'd feel in a similar situation, or it reminds you of something/someone else that affected you.  Just a little poignancy.  Or maybe the soundtrack music pushed a button.   :-)

I sobbed for I don't know how long during & after seeing Truly, Madly, Deeply.  And Moonlight Mile, both of which I loved.

Then there's something like United 93, both terrible and uplifting...

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Recently I watched the Painted Veil

Trapped in a loveless marriage, a British doctor EDWARD NORTON travels with his unfaithful wife NAOMI WATTS to a remote Chinese village to fight a cholera outbreak .It's a very, very beautiful film and it's a really moving love story, Sexual tension is hightened in this film but still remains romatic . I just melted.

When I was pregnant I watched Australian Drama Love my way. I cried the most towards the last film maybe it was the hormones but I lent it to my sister and to my mother and had the same effect on them unsure if it is available in the US. but fantastic film here is the synoposis.

One day you wake up and you're in your thirties. How'd that happen? Still semi-broke, still negotiating with you ex about your daughter, still wondering what you're going to do when you grow up.

Frankie is a tempestuous ball of mad life: she colours in for a living at a large daily newspaper. She lives with Tom, a fallen star chef, now a cook at the local rehabilitation hospital. Just down the road in a much nicer house lives Charlie 35, architect, surfer, emotionally stunted and Lou's father. He's also Frank's ex and Tom's brother. Charlie's remarried to Julia, a woman with firm dreams about her life that are about to come true and scare the shit out of her. Love My Way is an exploration of big characters dealing with the deepest human emotions. Love, hate, truth, lies, jealousy and anger. It deals with the randomness of life and the bloody mindedness needed to carve out a place in the world. These people are family by blood and family by proxy - a web of relationships which are pulled and strained by the strongest desires and contradictions of the human heart.

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Also Truly Madly Deeply I loved the crying scene real crying tears snot howling I remember this film came out during the time of Ghost and Demi Moore had the one tear drop on her face the british do grieving justice its meant to be ugly loss is painful.

Bambi was my first tearjearker and ET when I was little.